Originally posted by It's FalseA lot of people out here in L.A. are panicking about tsunami warnings out here, but I would think that something would hit Hawaii long before it reached coastal California. I could be wrong, though.

Originally posted by It's FalseA lot of people out here in L.A. are panicking about tsunami warnings out here, but I would think that something would hit Hawaii long before it reached coastal California. I could be wrong, though.

If I fail to post tomorrow it may be time to batten down the hatches.

Good luck out there J. Kyle, and definitely let us know if/when you are out of the woods of this.

We have a friend who actually lives in Sendai (he teaches Miyagi University). Fortunately, he was traveling in Korea with his wife and two kids, but has no idea as to whether or not his apartment building is even standing.

We received some local Tsunami alerts, but those are largely "stay out of the water" warnings - a result of the Channel Islands blocking most of the energy.

I cannot even conceive of what an 8.9 quake would feel like. That's just huge.

Apparently the other islands took it more than we did, but the worst they got (so far) is some hotel lobby flooding. The sirens thankfully cut out around 3 but I stayed up until 4 because a Tsunami hit Japan where my friend was trapped on a train in Tokyo for over ten hours because of the automatic shutdowns.

He's at home now and the evacuation zone 4 blocks away isn't underwater (though there are lots of sirens out there right now) so here's hoping if they even manage to reach California you guys get your beaches splashed harmlessly like we did.

My parents on Oahu didn't see anything drastic (except cray long lines at gas stations and empty grocery store shelves). There is currently a strike going on with the employees of the electric company which would have also been problamatic in a minor way.

My friend who I helped get the money to go over to Tokyo is fine. He says he will out of contact when he goes to Kotoy and Oaska for a couple of days. I guess the trip he is on won't refund the money. I'd rather him lose the money then be out of contact for almost a week with all of everything that is going on. I guess rolling blackouts started in Tokyo around 10 am yesterday.

any chance you could remember to post NSFW when there are undressed ladies on the front page of a link?

Gosh, I must admit, I never even knew it was him.

We'll be back right after order has been restored here in the Omni Center.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy - Swift